And if u ask me, takin a paycut is the easy route. All the front office has to do us sell u the fact that there is no state tax in florida, miami is a big market, blah blah blah
11/25 Kobe SIGNS 2yr Extension!
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GoddamnyamanProf
Countdown to Armageddon
Lol guaranteeing irrelevance for the foreseeable future 
Ben.
Heisenbrook
Oh maybe Kobe stans have some knowledge but ...
Kobe and his agent doing some fishy stuff telling teams (the Nets for sure and i am sure there are others... when there is smoke there is fire) not to draft him or else he would play in Italy... Kobe was going to play in a big market one way or another.
Ya know ya boy Kobe wasn't gonna go play for some small market team, he would have left that bytch once his rookie contract ended either way.
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
@ cap space. Nobody wants to play wit that n1gga 
At least 2 more yrs of mediocrity
Brief Keef
Superstar
Bean GodTHE MACHINE
night owl
Is it me or are some "Lakers" fans trying to wipe Shaq out of their history.
how great is our gawdyou nikkas really expected Kobe to give up more than $20 million to help the team win? I personally wouldn't have done it but Kobe is a better man. I woulda demanded that $35 milly
Goatpoacher
Superstar
Laker fans...
"Understand a couple of things. At this stage of Bryant's career, as one of the greatest players ever, he has earned a certain stature and pay grade in the NBA. He has won five championships for the Lakers and made the organization countless hundreds of millions of dollars during his 17-year career.
So a portion of what Bryant will be paid over the next two seasons amounts to a sort of lifetime achievement award. Having entered the NBA just before the league successfully put a cap on maximum individual player salaries, it can be argued that if Bryant were paid what he was truly worth over the past decade-plus, the Lakers would owe him another $250 million -- at least."
"...Forbes estimated earlier this year that the Miami Heat were worth $364 million before LeBron James arrived and are now worth $625 million. The publication estimates that the Lakers are one of two teams in the NBA (the other being the New York Knicks) worth $1 billion. If you don't think a significant portion of that is due to Kobe Bryant, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. (For a couple of knishes, a cheesecake and a marble rye, I'll throw in the basketball team that plays there.)
So while Bryant remains the highest-paid player in the league, he also remains something else in the era of compressed player salaries and artificially limited individual maxes: underpaid.
Whether Bryant is overpaid when his salary is viewed through the prism of the 2011 collective bargaining agreement and its massive luxury-tax penalties is a different sort of debate. What's indisputable, though, is that Bryant is taking a pay cut from the maximum the Lakers could have paid him. Under the rules, Bryant was entitled to 107.5 percent of his previous year's salary in this extension. Since he makes $30.5 million this season, Bryant's salary ceiling (subject to negotiation, of course) was $32.8 million for the 2014-15 season."
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/writer/ken-berger/24280657/why-kobe-bryant-is-worth-it-and-then-some
So a portion of what Bryant will be paid over the next two seasons amounts to a sort of lifetime achievement award. Having entered the NBA just before the league successfully put a cap on maximum individual player salaries, it can be argued that if Bryant were paid what he was truly worth over the past decade-plus, the Lakers would owe him another $250 million -- at least."
"...Forbes estimated earlier this year that the Miami Heat were worth $364 million before LeBron James arrived and are now worth $625 million. The publication estimates that the Lakers are one of two teams in the NBA (the other being the New York Knicks) worth $1 billion. If you don't think a significant portion of that is due to Kobe Bryant, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. (For a couple of knishes, a cheesecake and a marble rye, I'll throw in the basketball team that plays there.)
So while Bryant remains the highest-paid player in the league, he also remains something else in the era of compressed player salaries and artificially limited individual maxes: underpaid.
Whether Bryant is overpaid when his salary is viewed through the prism of the 2011 collective bargaining agreement and its massive luxury-tax penalties is a different sort of debate. What's indisputable, though, is that Bryant is taking a pay cut from the maximum the Lakers could have paid him. Under the rules, Bryant was entitled to 107.5 percent of his previous year's salary in this extension. Since he makes $30.5 million this season, Bryant's salary ceiling (subject to negotiation, of course) was $32.8 million for the 2014-15 season."
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/writer/ken-berger/24280657/why-kobe-bryant-is-worth-it-and-then-some
G-Zeus
G-Zeus Chrystler...the brehsident
nope.. these are technical numbers.....two years from now he would be worth 35+ mil if he had taken that salry and 2 years after... 37 mil..
they just blowing up a balloon to impress idiots.
they just blowing up a balloon to impress idiots.
Haters gon avoid this.
bytches saw that 24 mil per and thought just cuz lebron took that paycut in the teens, that kobe didnt because he signed for 24 per.
Kobe took an 8 mil paycut for 2015. More than what bron paycut was
bytches saw that 24 mil per and thought just cuz lebron took that paycut in the teens, that kobe didnt because he signed for 24 per.
Kobe took an 8 mil paycut for 2015. More than what bron paycut was
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
he did take less